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K"'the hysteria of the ■,Dem*Q- at any pi 'cratic press over what they are pleas-\^^® nave tneij ed to call Mr. Butler’s ascendency the party, when their lamentations ftheir sovereign capacity have spoken and wailings oyer the loss of Mr. Dun.f our leaders this year, and they can, which iriendly sympathy is oi udice^hd ambi- dust. The people in ew meii^^rt;^of' pi^cragirf^ln^' 5 I n?;/ course fully recognized as rubbing salt on Republican wounds, I think it will be universally recognized that the one declaration of the convention was. in concrete effect, that the party would no longer submit to domination by, any one individual or faction and that j will win if there i. ^^any merit in or- they demanded that the fight be wag-1 ganization, in wise pt>lieies and in an spoke wisely. Mr. Morehead is wor thy to represent us befor^ any tri bunal and our interests are safe in his keeping. Mr. Li)iney is safe and sane. Under his guidance the party pJlonce will retire to the shado^^*^^f that inocuous desuetude which^ Mr Cleveland inaugurated. All this is as true as gospel if the people's wishes are carried out and we have a reunit ed party as of old. ed against Democracy instead of a warfare conducted against each other to the neglect of the political antag onist. Realizing this, if our people will at once go about their respective localities, talking harmony, unity of purpose and concert of action, all to the end of party success. If that spirit is brought into activity right now, vigorously presented and main tained until November we will, I am sure, achieve most gratifying and sur prising results next fall. Yours very truly, JNO. M. MOREHEAD. In this letter, while not intended for publication, Mr. Morehead hits the nail on the head so wisely and he sizes up the situation so clearly that we print it without his advise so the peo ple can see the broad-mindedness of the one who has our best interests in hand. With this high sense of respon sibility always in sight we can ex pect a united and an aggressive fight this year. To use his words “talk harmony, unity of purpose and concert of action, all to the end of party suc cess" will lead to “surprising results this fall.” The people are with Mr. Morehead in his efforts to a man, and they will not “neglect their political antagonist” in the least. They will remember them at the polls, if not ini their prayers. honorable presentation of the issues that confront us as a party. Thomas Settle, J. J. Britt, Judge Robinson, J. S. Lewis and their district associatess will see that the best available men are evolved from the Chicago conven tion. Thei’e is nothing small in their desii’e to clear the way so that the elephant can come down the pike like a conquering hero. In the State and In the counties the best men are being nominated for officers ^hich means that somebody is going to be elected. The star of hope has a golden lustre, and “behind the cloud the sun is shin ing.” Smile! You disconsolate Radi cals, Smile! Victory looms larger just ahead if we can read the stars aright. You can’t fool all the people but one time in quarter of a century. Even old rock-trr.L^bed, Democratic Gadton Is “prepared” to join the triumphant hosts one time more. The people want to do the square thing if they know it and this year they are Solomons. The primary law is not very popu lar. The people do n|t care to take an iron-clad oath that they will “vote her straight,” at least until they know who are the nominees. There is no room in the primary for the independent voter. If John Jones wanted protection to American in terests and yet wanted to vote for his brother -yho was running for consta ble on the Democratic ticket he could not do it if he entered the primary. You must be pig or pup according to this law. The people will stay away from the primaries as a rule and still retain their self respect and still vote as they please as- a sovereign citizen of this great republic. If somebody would go to Raleigh and get half our; laws repealed the people would be pleased. Not long ago they indicted and convicted an old Confederate sol dier’s son for helping to bury his neighbor and not reporting the matter properly. It is consoling to think that Patrick Henry does not live today for if he had to have liberty or death he sure would get death. We should re turn to the days of common sense in legislation. “Low taxes and economy” is what the people want—then support the ticket that is pledged to this. Lincoln said: “I do not know much about the tariff, but I do know that if you buy a ton of steel rails abroad you have the rails and the foreigner has the money if you ^ake a ton of rails here you have both the rails and the money.” Our free trade friends told us last campaign that if they were given power they would lower our tariff du ties or abolish them and then the high cost of living would depart forever. Through a division in their opponents’ ranks they gained the former al though still a minority party and they put 70 per cent of our products upon the free list, still the cost of living is higher today than it ever was even under the McKinley tariff. Our friends now admit that tariff duties are necessary and they retain the duty on sugar. They are also preparing We are becoming pretty thoroughly convinced that before the Torrens system of registering land titles is made a success, some official must be j chargei^ with the dluty of helping landowners get these Torrens deeds. North Carolina, South Carolina, Vir ginia and Mississippi now have the law, and that is gratifying as show ing the progress of public sentiment. But the actual use'of the measure has not been great. When the land own er goes to get a deed, the lawyer in sists upon or prefers the old ’'form. Sometimes the lawyer does this hon estly—simply because he knows the old way, and hasn’t taken pains to learn the new way. But in not a few cases we h'-ar of lawyers telling far mers a To? ens deed will cost $100 to $150, wherc^as Attorney General Bick- ett of Norl'h Carolina says that the average cc.^t should not exceed $25, Adjudge to go from county to county and help f; mers get titles at a stan- Jardizatior: ccs.t seems a necessity in order to insure widespread adoption and reasonable charges.—Progressive Farmer. The Gas'■.on Republican knows the the sentim:;;nt of most of the mill own ers and op: rators of the South rela tive to thii child labor bill now be fore Congress, and it knows that all are opposed to its passage. This be- ng true it should not pass because Lhe people interested should not have such unwise legislation forced upon them at the solicitation of sentimen- '.alists North who know nothing what ever of our conditions here. All mill managers, as a rule, are opposed to any inhumanity to children. It v/ould be a great injustice to force these boys under 16 years to loaf instead of allowing them to toil for an honest living for needy families. They learn a good trade and they are well cared for while at work. The old latin mot to, “Labor omnia vincet,” labor con quers all thingSj has stood the test of centuries until this year these fad dists want to say that loafing con quers all things. The State laws are sufficient to meet all demands here. aliens. Death to the l^illians wa"s th^ demand of d,il, and om^orces marched upon foreign soil determined at all cost to uphold our monor. Many of the Villa men have bSen slain, and our wrongs are being redeemed as far as possible against the band of bandits. Still, as a nation, there are many is sues yet unsolved with the governing power there. Some of Carranza’s forces have fired upon our troops, they ask us to retire from their country, they refuse us their railk-cjads for transportation purposes, they have in sulted our honor. What we propose to do about it rests with the administra tion. We do not criticise our officers in times of war As Stephen Decatur said “Our country right or wrong—• but still our country.” If our com- mander-in-chief of the army and navy, Mr. Wilson calls for men to whip Mexicoi they w^ill rally ir\ a hurry. Our country first deserves the services of every man. to get a tariff commission that will call for protection under the guise of; Kill the bill. a non-partisan commission. The treas-! ury balance is so low that necessity Mr. J. B. Duke, acc.ording to press forces them to raise these duties. Ev-! reports, is looking around for a loca- The Gaston Republican is a new journalistic venture at Gastonia. The first number of the paper shows the editorial hand of Mr. G. Ed Kestler, of Concord, a writer of much experi ence and of a reputation that it good. Mr. Kesder’s editorship is a guarantee that the paper will be of the clean class.—Editorial Charlotte Observer April 30, 1916. The average per capita farm wealth production of the United States is ?723. Iowa leads the list with $1,680 while North Carolina comes in as the 45th state with only $290 per capita. Texas has $460 and yet North Caro lina raises double the cotton per acre that Texas does. This is from the 1910 census. If a farmer could sell :wo mules or two horses each year he would on an average have more money than he does now. Getting the least for thei^' labor than any other State "almost, it is no wonder that improve ments in agriculture is greatly agi tated among the thoughtful. Now take the average taxes paid by our tax payers, $50 per capita, and divide it into what he receives for his year’s work, $290, and we see that he is pay ing nearly 20 per cent taxes on his income. It is no wonder that our farmers join in with the Gaston Re publican in opposing higher taxes. on the .phrt of Fe DemocTaic jTaTT. ^ chey will awaken to the need of re turning the Republican party to pow er and the re-establishment of the protective policy which brings busi ness prosperity.” Charity and Children comes out in favor of making it legal for the Gov ernor of North Carolina to veto any legislatilon that is passed by the leg islature. This question would depend to a great extent upon who is gov ernor and, also, upon what kind of a legislature we have. If we had a Blease at Raleigh it might not be so good and then it might. If we had a Republican legislature and a Demo cratic governor, and this is possible, the veto might block all legislation. If we have again some legislatures such as have met in our State in the past and we had a good governor the veto would be a great institution. The thing to do is for each county to elect its best men for officers and they wont need any veto or censor be cause they will do the square thing n everything. Mr. Ed Kestler has accepted the position of editor and manager of the new Republican paper at Gas tonia. A number of Republican gen- alemen have purchased the outfit of the Gastonian, which was published by Mr. Frank Brumley, and will con- c.nue the paper as a Republican or- an. Mr. Kestler was in the Populist Jays here editor of the Vestibule, and is an interesting and entertaining wri ter. Mr. Brumley will reamin with the'new paper, for a while at least, and will be in charge of the mechani cal department. Mr. Kestler will not move his family to Gastonia.—Con cord Tribune. en free trade Jclngland is preparing to enact tariff 'A'ws. Germany built up tion for a $100,000 home estate some where in Piedmont North Carolina If her colos^ resources that enable herj Mr. Duke will visit Gaston county we fight th;/}' world under a protective, believe we can suit him either in city tariff. /The prosperity of our nation j or rural property, and he would be at demand^ that our labor and capital; home in the center of his wonderful be protec^J^. j electric .power plants. The second issue of The Gaston Re publican sees Dallas go Republican, the first time in its life. The future issues will see Lowell, Gastonia, Mt. Holly, Cherryville, Belmont and all the rest go likewise. When life-long cities change over to us so early in the campaign it proves that when the campaign closes the landslide will all be our way. Mr. David P. Dellinger, of Gaston county, is a candidate before the Democratic primaries for Commis sioner of Labor and Printing. The Gaston Republican hopes our Demo cratic friends will nominate him, for the Democrats of Gaston are the best Democrats in the world and if by some misfortune they should carry che State we would rather have a Gaston Democrat there than one from any other section. But Mr Dellin ger if nominated can expect to be defeated if we ca read the signs of the times correctly. It is Mr. L. L. Jenkins, formerly of Gastonia, who is to oppose Mr. 0. Max Gardner for lieutenant Gover nor. He is a banker and a popular citizen withal, and will give the Dem ocratic favorite about as close a race as anyone the Republicans could have selected.—Charlotte Observer. on ever see tl^WjusEif^'IPIKTne t? their glcri^^ deeds in the days' that • re tried men’s souls. We should have d * roster and a history of those old vet erans and their sons should winte it now before it is too late. The next National Convention will be held at Birmingham May 15 to 20, rates from Gastonia $8.65. The Sons al ways meet with the veterans. If the Sons of Gaston veterans want to or ganize we could do so at once and go to Birmingham. The Gaston Republican congratu lates our city in having so kind and competent postmaster as Mr. John R. Rankin. The people are highly pleased with his excellent services so far as we can gauge public opinion. The High Shoals ball team v/:ll “cross bats” with the Clara Mill team teomarrcw afternoon at 3 on tiie tomorro afternoon at 3:30 on the Clara Clara Mill grounds. Give the Charlotte boosters a cord'ial reception and trade in Gastonia. The merchants here can save you big • :oney over Charlotte prices ,as these boosters will admit. We want to show them a real live city that will open their eyes. Five Hurt in Auitomohile Accident Near Kinston. Hookerton, April 18.—Miss Bessie Beaman of this town is suffering from a broken arm, and four other persons, including Ormond Edwards of Ayden,: bear bruises as the result of an automobile accident on a road near here. The car ran against a bank after Edwards, who was driv ing, had lost control. Destroy Six Aeroplanes. Columbus, N. M., April 27.—Six of 'he eight aeroplanes which have been used by the expeditionary fliers in Mexico have been 3estroyed as worth- 'ess junk. Two of the planes are now undergoing repairs here. Stomach Catarrh Is Very Prevalent In this climate catarrh Is a prevalent disease. Cainrrh af fects the stomach as ofton as any other organ. Perhaps every third person is more or less troubled with stomach catarrh. Peruna is extensively used in tnese cases. T5!£ / FAfifULY - RE?i/!EDY(
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